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by b3b0p 5999 days ago
I love DejaVu Sans Mono:

http://dejavu-fonts.org/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page

Which is a variant of Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:

http://www.gnome.org/fonts/

However, right now, my new favorite font is Menlo that came with Snow Leopard. It's another variant of Bitstream Vera and it seems to work much better at smaller font sizes. Which is great for limited screen sizes (such as 1280x800 on a smaller laptop).

2 comments

Menlo looks nice. There is a comparison between both at http://8.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kozenpQvKP1qzus90o1_500.png
Wow, I hadn't noticed Menlo, thanks. I've been using Bitstream Vera Sans Mono for a while but I don't like how faint the hyphen is with anti-aliasing when I'm coding in haml – a problem that Menlo fixes.